DESIGNING LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR EVALUATING AND CREATING

Unit 6

Objectives

Design guided learning activities at the Evaluating and Creating cognitive levels utilizing the 4-step process of backward design

Differentiate between the kinds of digital tools for teaching and learning during the Guided Learning Activities in your classroom that use the cognitive levels of evaluating and creating

Analyze scaffolding techniques to phase out student support in order to develop independent learners

Review Chapter 7

Review the ideas you learned in Unit 5 from Chapter 7 from Integrating Technology into Teaching . You will continue thinking about designing learning activities that are constructivist in nature and that help students master the learning you chose for this unit.

Step 2: Selecting Instructional Strategies In previous units, learning activities

and learning targets focused on constructing knowledge as they remembered, developed understanding, analyzed or applied.

In this unit, learning activities are utilizing all that constructed knowledge to evaluate or create something new

Answering the essential questions

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At this phase of backward design, you must pause to check that the supports for learning are gradually “fading” away…that the learning includes students learning how to think independently

Scaffold categories

Conceptual

Metacognitive

Procedural

Strategic

How will I provide varied and differentiated experiences so that all learners develop the requisite skills, procedures and knowledge they require in the medium of the culminating performance?

How will I provide the coaching and support to help students move from initial modeling and shaping of skills and procedures I am teaching toward increasing levels of independent use and creative self-expression?

How will I encourage my students to be self-reflective and self-evaluative as they explore and express themselves in the culminating project and as they answer the essential questions?

How will I build into their learning experiences opportunities to revisit, revise, refine, and rethink what they are doing and how they are doing it?

How will I build in options for peer coaching and peer critique?

It is the intentional scaffolding of activities that brings the student to the place where they can successfully perform the most complex task required in the Culminating Performance and as they answer the essential questions.

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Moving beyond the simple answer requires students to analyze and evaluate what is being said in the conversation.

It must be responsive to others Reveals deeper connections to ideas

beyond the “I agree” or “I think that’s good” level

Wikis provide a place to collaboratively work on writing, incorporating peer evaluations and sharing

Moderating

Evaluating other people’s posts and comments puts students in position of higher level critical thinking

Voicethread is one of the easiest ways for students to generate content and then moderate the responses that are posted.

Wikis and blogs can also function in this way…but it is more difficult for teachers to monitor

Collaborating and networking Students can work with not only

other students in their classroom, but other people that might share their interests

Good opportunity for students to work real-world content experts

Validating

Verify the accuracy and authority of websites by critically analyzing the web site’s authors

Cybersmart has an excellent lesson to incorporate here K-1 Explore what makes a good website 2-3 Explore and compare websites 4-5 Discuss and apply rating

information to sites 6-8 Using criteria, students grade

websites 9-12 Applying key criteria to multiple

websites

Graphic organizers and advanced organizers Explicit clues Rubrics=excellent advanced

organizers Build visual literacy using concept

mapping software throughout unit. Use differently depending on cognitive level

Using simulations

Marzano studies show a gain of 43 percentile points when students manipulated this kind of digital learning tool

Examples include National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Gizmos Concord Consortium Shodor

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Digital images mixing and remixing Students capture, create, mix and

remix digital images to communicate their ideas and viewpoint

Write, create storyboards, explain ideas, create settings and props, edit digital images (incorporating feedback from peers), adding music, writing credits and saving/sharing resulting product

Publishing Done via the web or from desktop

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activity, publishing is multi-step and requires scaffolding to ensure successful culminating performance

Wikis or blogs good choices Animoto CogDogRoo Storytelling

Assignments and Activities for Unit 61. Post what you learned about using a social

networking site on your Moodle blog. 2. Complete the Online Discussion about

learning targets at the Evaluating and Creating levels.

3. As you finalize the learning targets from the Online Discussion, post those to your wiki page.

4. Review CogDogRoo Storytelling tools. Pick out 1 or 2 to discuss in Online Discussion with your classmates.

Learning Target Discussion Complete the Online Discussion about learning

targets at the Evaluating and Creating levels. You should post your learning targets by Wednesday, September 23rd so that your classmates can read and comment on what you've drafted

Then you should comment and dialog with everyone so they can fine tune their learning targets and integrated technology. This online discussion will be due by Saturday, September 26th.

As you finalize the learning targets from the Online Discussion, post those to your wiki page. This is due by Sunday, September 27th.

Storytelling Tools Review

Read through the CogDogRoo Storytelling website.

Pick one tool from two categories to share with your classmates

Original post due by Wednesday, September 23rd.

Comments are due by Saturday, September

26th.

Slideshow Timeline Mixer Comic/Sketch Collage Map Flickr Tools Audio Tools Video Tools Presentation Tools

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